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Hotel — Word History
Supplies the English date and French history for hotel.
French hôtel and First Known Use- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 56
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
resolvedestablished
When did hotel enter English?
Merriam-Webster reports 1687 for the lodging noun, after French hôtel had developed from Old French hostel.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 56
hotel
/hoʊˈtɛl/ · noun
A public lodging establishment, borrowed from French hôtel through Old French hostel and ultimately the Latin hospitality family.
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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
1 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.
- CONFIDENCE
- established
- STATUS
- resolved
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The Merriam-Webster entry supplies the date and French succession; the family essay supplies the doublet context.
The source-reported year is retained as an attestation record, not upgraded into a directly inspected witness.